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Hundreds of parishioners at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Hickory attended a Christmas Eve Mass Wednesday with Archbishop of Baltimore William E. Lori leading the celebration. "This is a beautiful Mass, this Christmas Eve, so many families come, so many young people, so many children, and it's just a chance to welcome Jesus into our hearts and into our home and into our parish family," Lori said before the 4 p.m. service. Lori previously visited St. Ignatius, which is a couple of miles north of Bel Air, about two years ago for a Saturday evening Mass when he was appointed as the archbishop by then-Pope Benedict XVI as part of an effort to visit as many local parishes...

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